Sunday, August 21, 2011

Christmas cookies

Christmas Cookies

150 grams butter
1 egg
300 grams dark brown sugar
500 grams plain flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celsius and grease or line a cookie tray.

Cream the butter and sugar together, then mix in the eggs and the spices.

Add the flour gradually, until it is quite a solid dough. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface. Keep on kneading the flour in until it has all been incorporated, and the dough is stiff and shiny.

Roll the dough out until it is about 5 mm thick and cut it into shapes. Place on trays and bake each tray for 15 minutes.


Royal Icing

1 egg white
250 grams icing sugar
Colours

Sift the sugar over the egg white and mix it into a thick paste. Separate into bowls and add different colours.

Pipe the icing around the edges of the cookies, let it harden a little, and then fill in the centers.

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